NACOS USER ECDIS

At the beginning of the year 2012 – ECDIS is one of the mandatory equipment for IMO ships. In a time schedule up to 2018 all types of IMO-ships require ECDIS equipment and adequate ECDIS education. This means that ship operator must make sure that every master and deck officer has received ship-specific ECDIS training to operate the ECDIS equipment safely.

The Wärtsilä SAM Electronics Training Centre provides the "Type-specific ECDIS training" into three different ways:

The Classroom trainingThis high quality classroom training provides an ideal training environment for this kind of courses. It can taken place in SAM Training Centre, in customer premise as well as by the use of cooperation partner’s training facilities.

The onboard trainingOptional to regular, scheduled training sessions the onboard - training is a very flexible and best tailored training solution by the use of the ship’s equipment and mobile training sets. These kind of training courses as the “AT THE BERTH” - or as the “DURING TRAVEL” - session is a good combination of well known user environment and ship’s operation. Both types of onboard-sessions will have the same target of 12 hours of ECDIS-type specific training for each participant. Due to several special conditions onboard i.e. cargo operations, officer’s rest times etc. the real training duration must be longer than for classroom training ashore.

The computer-based training or e-learning solution via the InternetWärtsilä SAM Electronics Training Centre cooperates with the e-learning supplier SAFEBRIDGE. This independent platform for e-learning provides both ECDIS generations. The CBT (computer-based training) -course content is harmonized with our standard training content. Each program has been approved by Wärtsilä SAM Electronics Training Centre.